Thursday, April 15, 2010

Caboose

The last cabooses disappeared from American freight trains by the middle 1980s, but lots of remnants are preserved (sometimes as motel cabins) or derelict in lonely rail yards. Rarely is one seen in actual use on a railroad, and this rusty former Chicago & North Western bay-window caboose is still working as a rolling tool shed for the maintenance of way department of the Union Pacific, which swallowed the old C&NW in 1995. I shot her on a siding along the UP's Chicago-Kenosha North Line in Evanston, Illinois.

HENRY KISOR

ABOUT THIS BLOG

Every day, the weather gods and the photography angels willing, a new photograph will be posted here. Some will be from my archive of nature photographs, taken both from my backyard deck in Evanston, Illinois, and on the shore of Lake Superior in Upper Michigan. From time to time I'll sneak in a shot or two taken while indulging in my other passions, railfanning and small-plane aviating.